Wiktoria Wojciechowska
Lublin, Poland
4 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Paris
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Works by Wiktoria Wojciechowska
Wiktoria Wojciechowska is an artist working with photography, video, collage, sculpture and installation. Born in Lublin, Poland, in 1991. Based in Paris.
Her practices are particularly focusing on observation and understanding of human lives and stories through the rules of society and history. The works are characterised by fragmented and non-linear narratives and aim to unveil the connection between the individual and its community.
In 2015 she received the Oskar Barnack Leica Newcomer Award and got several prizes for her project Short Flashes. Between 2014 and 2016 she was working on Sparks - a portrait of the contemporary war in Ukraine. Sparks received several awards such as Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards, Prix pour la Photographie Fondation des Treilles, Discovery Award public prize and Madame Figaro Prize. Sparks has been featured in numerous exhibitions such as Les Rencontres d'Arles 2018, New Discovery Award, France; Jimei X Arles festival, Xiamen, China; Krakow Photomonth, Poland; Museum of Photography in Riga, Latvia.
Her current projects explore the boundaries of the spiritual and the ritual, using different methods to bring the viewer, starting from a physical sensation, to a transcendental experience. Objects are made ‘'to be touched'', allowing visitors to perform their own ritual, which would heal them from their ''amnesia of nature.''
Education: Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Media Art, Warsaw, Poland.
Selected Exhibitions:
2021 – Trouble in Paradise, Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Architettura 2021, Italy. 2020 – Short Flashes, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, France.
2020 – Short Flashes, Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme, France.
2019 – Sparks, La Filature Scène Nationale, Mulhouse, France.
2019 – Sparks, videos screening at Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, HKW, Berlin, Germany.
2019 – Sparks, in La Fabrique des Illusions, Mucem, Marseille, France.
2019 – Chinese Chapters, Stimultania, Strasbourg, France.
2019 – Sparks screening at Nuit des images, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2019 – Sparks, videos screening at Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, France.
2019 – Sparks in La Fabrique des Illusions, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon.
2018 – Sparks, Jimei X Arles Festival, Xiamen, China.
2018 – Sparks, New Discovery Award, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France.
2017 – Sparks, Centre Photographique - Hotel Fontfreyde, Clermont - Ferrand, France.
2017 – Sparks, Confluence Gallery, Nantes, France.
2017 – Sparks, Museum of Photography in Riga, Latvia.
2017 – Sparks, Circulation(s) Festival, Paris, France.
2016 – Sparks, Gallery Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw, Poland.
2016 – Short Flashes, Masters of Photography, Photokina, Cologne, Germany.
2016 – Short Flashes, Fotofestival Lodz, Oskar Barnack Award Exhibition, Poland.
2016 – Sparks, CACP Villa Perochon, Niort, France.
2015 – Short Flashes, Leica Oskar Barnack, Festival Les Rencontres, Arles, France.
2015 – Short Flashes, Photolux Festival, Lucca, Italy.
2015 – Sparks, National Museum of Ethnography, Warsaw, Poland.
2015 – Aurora Portraits, Onward Photography Festival, Philadelphia, USA.
2014 – Synthesis, Transphotographique(s) Festival, Lille, France.
2014 – Short Flashes, Action!Exhibition!, Beijing, China.
Collections:
Fondation Antoine de Galbert / Museé de Grenoble, France.
Collection des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France.
Fondation François Schneider, France.
Fondation des Treilles, France.
Polish Modern Art Foundation, Poland.
Private collections.
Selected publications:
2020 – Encore somnolent, je deployais mes oreilles en fleur, collective monograph, Le Rayon Vert, France.
2020 – Labirinto, text by Lisa Halliday and photo-essay, Granta, UK. 2020 – The Study of Traces, Free-Time Magazine, France. 2018 – Sparks, New York Times, USA. 2018 – Sparks, portfolio, Even Magazine, New-York, USA.
2018 – Chinese Chapters, China Life Magazine, China. 2018 – Sparks, Mediapart, France. 2017 – Short Flashes, The Calvert Journal, London, UK. 2016 – Sparks, Fisheye magazine, France.
2016 – Short Flashes, Financial Times (FT) Weekend Magazine, UK. 2016 – Short Flashes, The Guardian, UK. 2016 – Sparks, British Journal of Photography, UK. 2015 – Leica Fotografie International, Special edition, Germany.
Awards:
2019 – Fondation François Schneider, Contemporary Talents Award, Wattwiller, France.
2018 – Sparks, Public's choice, New Discovery Award, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France.
2018 – Sparks, Madame Figaro Award, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France.
2017 – Sparks, Emerging Photographer Fund, Burn Magazine, Honorable Mention, USA. 2016 – Prix pour la Photographie, Fondation des Treilles, France.
2016 – Emerging Talents Awards, LensCulture, USA.
2016 – Sparks, Coming Out, 1st place in Best Diplomas of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland.
2016 – Fidal Photo Fisheye Magazine 2016, 2nd place, France.
2016 – Best Polish Art Diplomas Award 2016, Gdansk, Poland.
2015 – Short Flashes, Oskar Barnack Leica Newcomer Award 2015, Germany.
2015 – La Quatrieme Image Young Talents 2015, France.